wHAT DO YOUR KIDS LIKE TO LISTEN TO ?

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as my firstborn announced she didn't like FIVE anymore as she is a goth and into WHEATUS !!!!!!

and you wonder why im angry

― grdrcr, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm amused. I'd encourage this.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The time is near I feel for my "Wheatus Made Me Cry" anecdote, promised then cruelly withheld...

How old is yr neuva goth, Geordie?

― mark s, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well my daughter is only 5 weeks old. Nevertheless she delights dad with her interest (by be being quite/going to sleep) in Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Dub and Gentle Waves/Belle & Sebastian. If life would go like this, sadly in years to come it will be boybands and then Gothgabberdeathfunkfromhell. :(

― Omar, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

if i had kids, i would play them biz markie, stevie wonder, wagon christ, sun ra, and de la soul. and that bis powerpuff girls song.

― ethan, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My kids will get their Auntie Tanya as babysitter. I'm with Kronos on this - get them before they get you.

― Tom, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My kids? What do my kids listen to? Fuck that shit. I am the motherfucking kids.

― Greg, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hate the kids.

― Kris, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What Greg said, but with less conviction.

― Nick, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

12, wearing a hipchain supposedly makes you a goth uphere nowadays - my sistaz tryin to get hher into THE OFFSPRING TO P ME OFF - firstborn asked me whether i could get the chords to punk ass bitch off the net - yer racer is not easily gobsmacked bbut jesuz wept !

― grdrcr, Saturday, 5 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

I listen to exactly what my dad does. He's supplied all the albums I first listened to - bought, stolen from his older brother, etc. - and all I can say is it's a bloody good thing he didn't buy me modern music to listen to eight years ago. As for my brother, he's got weirder taste - Henry Cow is a bit much for my dad...

― Anna Rose, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven months pass...

My kids - 6, 4, and 20 months - delight in Bruce Springsteen, the Lyres, the Ramones, and John Lithgow

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:31 (twenty years ago) link

playing a mid 90's hydrogen dukebox comp now and my 4 year old is humming a bassline. its a relief from bobthefckrnbuilder.

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 17 May 2003 08:28 (twenty years ago) link

hm, my 12-year-old daughter's been for years into all kinds of 'girl-made-pop' (plus, lately, Linkin Park & POD)

the son, freshly 19, has gone through his punk-, rap-, ol'-& nu-metal phases (this latter thing still goin' quite strong for him)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 17 May 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

Ok, everyone knows that AsiaKitty presents herself as the be all and end all of 12 year old Foo Fighters worshippers, but it is a little known fact that AsiaKitty did at one time love Barney songs and would become enraged at the end of the show when that last song was over. It didn't help that I would always yell at her when it was on, "Stop watching that! It makes me want to hurt children! Aargh!!!!!!!" and I'd have to run - traumatized and screaming - from the room (which is hard to do in a studio apt) before I lost it.

I tried telling her that toddlers in my day were far cooler since we had Batman to obsess over and the Batman Theme to rock to. I forced her to watch a Batman re-run and she was unimpressed. "THIS is what you were excited about???!!!"

oh, be quiet and go watch your Barney. I think Dave Grohl is guesting this week.

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

Fucking Raffi.

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 17 May 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Better than Raffi fucking, I'd guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 May 2003 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

oi Ned, you ragged foulmouth!...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 17 May 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

On my 12-year old daughter's plate:

Foo Fighters+Nirvana=97.3% total listening time
The Clash, Rammstein, Rancid, Taty (aka Tatu), Blonde Redhead all others 2.7% total listening time.

― Roman (Roman), Sunday, 18 May 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, yeah... my 4-yr. old really majorly digs the Rolling Stones. Of course, he also likes the Wiggles....

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 18 May 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

But those Barney songs are awesome!!!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 18 May 2003 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

no kids, but I'm waaay too into Spongebob Squarepants lately.
I don't even have a tv anymore, but that can't stop me from thinking about him.

― HoraceMann, Monday, 19 May 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link

When I have kids I'm going to play them plenty of Boards of Canada, oh yes.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 19 May 2003 10:11 (twenty years ago) link

wot? when they're all tucked up and cozy and grinning like they love you and everything in the universe?

or the second after?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 19 May 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

I've said all this before, but here we go again. My kids (daughter aged 7 1/2, son aged almost-5) are all about: The Four Tops (they both yelled this at the same time; "I Can't Help Myself" and "Standing in the Shadows of Love" are tops, but they're also all up into "What Is a Man" and "A Simple Game"), "Y.M.C.A.," "Hound Dog" and "Bear Cat," Howlin' Wolf, Elvis Presley (family trip to Sun Studios and Graceland responsible for those last three), "Up, Up, Up" by Rose Falcon, Janet Jackson, the title track from the Martin Gordon 2003 record The Baboon in the Basement (definitely NOT a kids' album, as my son is now also singing "Hit Him on the Head with a Hammer"), Fussible's "Odyssea" called "La Bellena," Bis, Pizzicato Five, P.Funk ("Give Up the Funk" and anything featuring Sir Nose D', although my daughter feels kinda bad for him on Motor-Booty Affair when they throw him in the water when he's clearly not ready to swim yet), and the Beatles, although they've only ever heard Abbey Road and seen the Powerpuff Girls' episode about the Beat-alls. We kind of all hate the Wiggles and (mostly) Raffi.

Oh: she likes Ruben, he likes Clay.

― Neudonym, Monday, 19 May 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link

aw, neud...i'd never read that before. thats fuckin great.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 19 May 2003 13:36 (twenty years ago) link

Bryn's mother and i were delighted when, 35 minutes after i'd finally hooked up the turntable, he demanded a rewind on driving away from home by its immaterial

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

Foo Fighters+Nirvana=97.3% total listening time

It's more than that.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

My lad (aged 2) has started picking up on advertising jingles. So at the moment his favourite tunes are 'We will rock you' and the 'double 1, double 8, double 8' directory enquiries ad.

He's also enjoyed Led Zeppelin and 'Yellow Submarine', but he's still mostly into his nursery rhymes.

He got scared the other day by something I wasn't expecting. I've played him all sorts of strange and discordant music, but the one thing that's freaked him out is a Duke Ellington CD ('Ellington at Newport'). It was the muted trumpets and clarinets that did it - I guess because they sound very 'vocal', a very distinctive and vibrant sound.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

OK, pardon me if I'm slow and I'm only just realising this, but we have an entire *family* on ILM? That is just about the COOLEST THING EVER!!!

(meta-question: would I let my kids read/post to ILM? I think I'd force them to. "Homework time is OVAH! Time to read ILM!")

― kate, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link

yeah but would you let them read YOUR posts kate?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:08 (twenty years ago) link

Well, jeez, if I actually ever *had* a kid, how do you think they would have been made in the first place?

― kate, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:11 (twenty years ago) link

dirtydronerockkid?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

Any child of mine will be aware of Uncle Sonic and Uncle Jason FROM BIRTH!!! In fact, from BEFORE BIRTH!!! I will put headphones on my fat swollen stomach and play The Perfect Prescription to them in the womb!

(Coincidentally, when my best friend in high school was pregnant, she used to play Love and Rockets' Saudade and swear that it stopped said baby from kicking.)

― kate, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

o no! hows the kid now?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 10:31 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know. It was adopted. :-(

― kate, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

11 = vidgame background music
9 = 50 Cent, Limp Bizkit
4 = Las Ketchup!!!

― Chris Clark, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

dammit forgot to list Thin Lizzy (the entire Jailbreak album, "Cowboy Song" and title track in particular, I played a local radio show and the producer turned on their mikes during the chorus of "Jailbreak" to hear them rocking the fuck out), the Bring in Da Noise soundtrack, and all those Louis Armstrong/Ella Fitzgerald duets (mostly Emma, who loves 'em both separately but together most)

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

My son (just turned 4) absolutely LOVES Gorillaz, and requests that we listen to them on the ride home from school almost every single day. Seeing as how I'm not the fun-hata many of you people are, I oblige him wholeheartedly.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

(Me & his mama used to play him Stereolab, Roland Kirk, and Medeski Martin and Wood while he was still in utero.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

ten years pass...

Since last week, my four-year old daughter likes to listen to nothing but "California Dreamin'".

― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 08:13 (ten years ago) link

My two-year old loves pretty much anything we play for him. His biggest favorites over the past couple of months, though, have been "Happy" and "Roar". He also really digs Motown stuff.

― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link

Don't have kids myself, BUT my nephew loves the Django Django cd I burned for my brother. He knows and hums them by their number. "What's that one you're singing?" "Number 5." Too cuet.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link

Also, it was apparently the first music CD he had encountered, and when my brother put it in the car's player he asked what DVD it was. My brother answered that it wasn't a DVD, it was just music. So now when he wants to hear Django Django he says "can we listen to just music dad?" Hahaha. KIDS, RIGHT?

― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link

He is 4

― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link

I'm one of those people still clinging to CDs, my son just refers to them as my "musics".

― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link

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